, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

productivity estimates. …

shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically …

exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …

factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the announcement of the reform …

reduction in tariffs leads to an increase in competition as price cost margins fall due to the increase in the number of players … in the domestic market. With the reduction in price cost margins, profits fall and increases the productivity threshold … exiting firms to the higher productivity surviving firms which innovate at a faster pace. The results show that trade …